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The reviews are all solicited, which speaks to the field knowledge our editors possess, as well as the editorial and the diplomatic skills of our staff-Paige Rasmussen, our managing editor, and Caroline Zuckerman, our book review editor. A number of factors often come into play when selecting this image-permissions, picture quality, cost, suggestiveness of life writing, and so on. For vol. 46, no. 2, we decided that Leonardo da Vinci would be appropriate-first because Freud's \"Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood\" features prominently in Agnieszka Sobolewska's essay on the birth of psychography in this issue, but second because the image is a presumed self-portrait-a visual evaluation very much in keeping with Biography's focus on the critical and theoretical approaches to life representation.

Part of the University of Wisconsin Presss renowned Studies in Autobiography series, her 2004 book, Tiie Text Is Myself: Women's Life Writing and Catastrophe, fulfilled Susanna Egans prophetic assessment: \"Miriam Fuchs is breaking new ground. When I took over as editor of Biography in 1994,1 asked Miriam to replace me as one of the literary editors; a year later, she was listed as \"literary editor in chief\" In the spring of 2000, when we radically reduced the size of the editorial board to reflect more accurately our actual practice, Miriam, now associate editor, was basically the only one left. [...]because Biography is a quarterly, during her sixteen-year editing tenure Miriam was conducting her impressive and influential personal research while she was contributing mightily to publishing seventy-five substantial journal installments.